RELG 204 Lecture 5: TuesJan20.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Patricia Kirkpatrick

Document Summary

Tues. jan 20 lecture: modern era, begins around the enlightenment period or french revolution and ends around the first world war, we live in the post modern period, post modernism, the educated human is no more enlightened than the non educated person, beginning of modern era for judaism is very much aligned with the protestant. Four common models of what covenant implies: nation led by prophets, liturgical community led by priests, a state led by kings, a disciple community led by sages, sage= wise person o, hesed. Jews under their control: a kingdom of priests and holy nation meant nothing less than to follow the oral torah, transformation of all public and private life in conformity to halakhic norms, understanding the rabbinic jews were priests only metaphorical not by blood, nevertheless all should aspire as sages, teachers whose wisdom derives from tradition oral.